Guys,
Can some one tell me what is the need for SMC service... technically what SMC service is doing.. Do SMC and SEP service have a difference?
Your help is appriciated
Do SMC and SEP service have a difference?
No,
SmcService :- Provides communication with the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager. It also provides network threat protection and application and device control for the client.
When SMC service are stoped sep client are not working
great.. Will stopping SMC stop the NTP feature ? or it just stop pulling definitions of NTP from SEPM.
basically stopping SMC will cause NTP or FW to stop working.. The reason i ask is.. if NTP is blocking some traffic.. will stopping SMC help identifying the issue?
I have seen few discussions where stopping the SMC ,disables NTP also.
Let me pull that discussion for you...
When you run SMC -stop command sep client are stopped working.
If you want to disable NTP, you need to use this command
To disable SEP client firewall service
smc -disable –ntp
To enable client firewall service
smc -enable -ntp
If the SEP client UI is password protected:
smc -disable -ntp -p <password>
Find some SEP Dos Command
SEP 12.1 & Dos commands
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/sep-121-dos-commands
Very good.. Thanks a lot for your prompt response.. This gives the answer i needed.
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